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Date:      Sun, 01 Nov 1998 11:57:15 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot flags 
Message-ID:  <199811011957.LAA05322@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 10:40:24 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811011038220.306-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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> My boot.conf looks like:
> 
> load kernel
> autoboot 10
> 
> so far (I'll add modules next), but what's the syntax in that file to
> add boot flags?  I specifically (right now) want to add -v.  If this is
> defined somewhere, a pointer there would be fine.

You can supply arguments when you load the kernel:

 load kernel -v

You can also set many of them using environment variables:

 set boot_verbose

and if you're using the 'boot' command, you can pass them there too:

 boot -v

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